Hanoi Hannah, Trinh Thi Ngo, Dies at Age 85
Trinh Thi Ngo was the soft-spoken radio announcer known as Hanoi Hannah to the American troops in Vietnam who were entertained by her even as…
WWII Medals Which Were Found In Drawer Have Been Returned to their Rightful Owner
Susan Terry was thrilled with the little dresser that her husband, Clay, had just brought home from the charity shop. Little did she know that…
Sonderkommando – Misunderstood Slaves of the SS
One of the most misunderstood of all the Holocaust victims were the Sonderkommando or ‘special squad’. These were the men selected from the incoming prisoners…
New Book Tells How Hitler Was Crazed on Over 70 Different Mind-Bending Drugs By the End of WWII
Norman Ohler, an award-winning German author, has a new book to be released on October 6 called “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany” According to Ohler,…
The Last Of The WW2 Dunkirk Evacuation “Beachmasters” Dies Aged 99
Captain William Tennant, busy overseeing the Dunkirk evacuations, gave his subordinate Vic Viner clear instructions, go back to the beach at Dunkirk and make “order…
Proposal to Award OSS Medal to WWII Veterans Has Stalled in Congress
Congress has stalled in its attempt to honor some special World War II veterans. Legislation has been proposed to award the Congressional Gold Medal to…
Korean War Air force Veteran Receives Service Medals 60 Years Later
Air Force Korean War Veteran, Ronald G. DeBlase, said he learned that he hated the ocean on a cross-Atlantic voyage. “When I got back, I…
Historic WWII Landing Ship Tank visits Vicksburg
Vicksburg is honored to have a venerable old lady, in the form of WWII tank landing ship, LST 325, placed in the dock. This fully functioning…
Outrage As Churchill’s Home becomes Hitler’s Headquarters For Movie
War veterans are aghast that Blenheim Palace will double as Hitler’s headquarters for Michael Bay’s latest film. The transformation of Winston Churchill’s former home into the…
Newspaper Magnate Was on Friendly Terms with Nazis
Files released under the Freedom of Information Act to the editor of Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog reveal that Norman Chandler, who became publisher of the Los…
Mexican – American War Remains Return Home
The US army’s chief medical examiner and director of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, Col. Louis Finelli, says it’ll take a few months to…
Family lifts opposition to the design of a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower
A long-standing hurdle to the design of a memorial to former U.S President Dwight Eisenhower has been resolved, with the family agreeing to a compromise. Eisenhower,…